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This book uses the example of a famous sea-monster from Greek myth to offer a new way of understanding mythical symbols.

What's in a name? Using the example of a famous monster from Greek myth, this book challenges the dominant view that a mythical symbol denotes a single, clear-cut 'figure' and proposes instead to conceptualize the name 'Scylla' as a combination of three concepts sea, dog and woman whose articulation changes over time. While archaic and classical Greek versions usually emphasize the metaphorical coherence of Scylla's various components, the name is increasingly treated as a well-defined but also paradoxical construct from the late fourth century BCE onward. Proceeding through detailed analyses...

This book analyses how the choruses of Greek tragedy creatively combined media and discourses to generate their own specific forms of meaning.